ncc74656's Journal: This is why you don't leech other people's bandwidth

When you include an image from another website in your website (instead of making your own copy of it), you never know when that image might be changed to something potentially embarrassing:

It's Sad When Jihadis Hotlink

I always love discovering that some leftist or jihadist site has "hotlinked" to one of my graphics (i.e., linked directly to the image on the LGF server instead of making their own copy), because the possibilities for mischief are endless. Today Brian at Snapped Shot found AlJazeera.com (not affiliated with JihadTV in any way except ideologically) hotlinking to a photo at his site, and arranged a most excellent surprise for the mujahideen: Glorious Jihadi Linkage.

As of this writing, if you go here and scroll down, you'll find Mohammed (piss be upon him) with a bomb in his turban. Hope the webmaster's life insurance is paid up...not!

(I think this would've been a better choice. This (which is loaded by the previous link; you may need to refresh after it loads) is a demonstration of one way you can block image leechers.)

Hotlinkers suck..

[Miguelito]

I used to have several myspace profile pages (shocking I know) hotlinking to a few pics on my site and my sister's blog. So I've got a few rewrite rules in place to display a "No hotlinking" jpg that's really tiny, when people try anymore.

A couple of the pages that had it still had the links in last I checked, really screwed up their pages to have my graphic mixed in there. :)

It has been a long time since...

[Kymermosst]

It has been a long time since something posted online has made me literally laugh out loud.

This did it. Thanks!